Are you struggling with last minute Christmas presents? Why not choose a book for that special someone? Here are some suggestions carefully selected by our librarians:
Cookery & travel
Maggie’s Harvest & Maggie’s Kitchen both by Maggie Beer
Nigella Christmas : food, family, friends, festivities by Nigella Lawson
In the kitchen : more than 1000 recipes for everyday by Allan Campion and Michele Curtis
Venezia : food & dreams by Tessa Kiros
Fire : a world of flavours by Christine Mansfield
Lonely Planet's Best in travel 2009 edition
The big trip by George Dunford
Crime and mystery
Private patient by P. D. James
A brass verdict Michael Connelly
A most wanted man by John Le Carre
Moscow rules by Daniel Silva
Girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larrsson
Girl who played with fire by Stieg Larrsson
The Birthday present by Barbara Vine
Cross country by James Patterson
The Charlemagne pursuit by Steve Berry
Biographies
Churchill and Australia by Graham Freudenberg.
Manning Clark : a life by Brian Matthews
Gough Whitlam : a moment in history : the biography. volume 1 by Jenny Hocking.
Cricket biographies
True colours : my life by Adam Gilchrist
Captain's diary 2008 : a season of tests, turmoil and twentytwenty by Ricky Ponting and Geoff Armstrong
Science & Non-fiction
Reading the OED : one man, one year, 21 730 pages by Ammon Shea
Sex sleep eat drink dream : a day in the life of your body by Jennifer Ackerman
The brain that changes itself : stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science by Norman Doidge
Two kinds of decay by Sarah Manguso
Like I give a frock : fashion forecasts and meaningless misguidance by Chloe Quigley and Daniel Pollock, illustrations by Kat Macleod
I was told there’d be cake by Sloane Crosley
The really useful grandparents' book by Eleo Gordon and Tony Lacey
Gardening
Contemporary Australian garden design : secrets of leading garden designers revealed by John Patrick and Jenny Wade.
Australian gardens for a changing climate by Jenna Reed Burns; photographer Simon Griffiths.
One magic square : grow your own food on one square metre by Lolo Houbein.
Literature and Australian fiction
The lieutenant by Kate Grenville
Wanting by Richard Flanagan
The boat by Nam Le
The rip by Robert Drewe
Vertigo : a pastoral by Amanda Lohrey
The slap by Christos Tsiolkas
